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During some hearing she brought 200 ppl including a batucada in the street in front of the court, causing a commotion the police probably remembers, that probably contributed to raise flags at higher levels on how determined J's supporters were (in my opinion a key way of raising the political heat under some procedural pot...).

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I met Alison during the first Assange hearing in Feb. 2020, by 5 degrees celcius, in the mud, between the court touching the Belmarsh prison and a highway-like road. She just came from Australia with no return ticket, leaving her activism against some mega-coal-mine there, because "until J is free, all other topics are at stake, because if we jail journalists we will never win on anything anymore" (that's not really a quote, more how i remember her words..).

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She was a total activist. in front of the dead-cold-muddy hellhole for a few days, she had put up -with her own resources- a tent, an electric generator, warm beverages and cakes. One of the first things she said to me was to apologize that the banana cake didn't have time to raise! it was still one of the best things i ate within a 3km radius of that dead zone.

(all of them things that organisations dedicated to the defense of Assange, with consequent budget, should have been organising!)

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I had more intense, honest and profound interactions with her than with many people who seemed like they were there for the show, for personal, ego or career reasons...

She was a true, honest, intense, courageous, dedicated human being.

I feel honoured i have met her.

Rest in Power, dear Ali! <3

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